Electing the Muppet in Chief

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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On the Gist, the missed opportunities of the South Carolina debates. In the interview, Mike talks with Eitan Hersh, professor of Political Science at Tufts University, about his new book Politics is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change. They discuss political hobbyism and why your news consumption is actually a form of slacktivism. In the spiel, who's the most like a muppet? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:22.7	Following recording, may or may not include instances of words being said that the FCC
0:28.7	would find me for if their long arm could ever reach.
0:31.6	It's Wednesday, February 26, 2020.
0:38.2	From slate, it's the gist I might pesca the chaos in Charleston, the South Carolina
0:43.2	shout fest.
0:44.6	But will it be the face palm meadow stayed for Bloomberg after he was lost and aimless
0:51.5	in Las Vegas now?
0:52.7	No, nothing.
0:53.7	Normal at destroy front runner Bernie Sanders, although he is likely to get fewer delegates
0:58.6	out of South Carolina than Joe Biden is.
1:01.1	Notice I didn't say he will win or lose a state.
1:04.9	And by avoiding that phraseology, I admit I surrender a sizzling, yet misleading bit
1:12.2	of drama.
1:13.5	That is why I topped the pack of this show with all those pizzazz filled phrases.
1:17.9	Just because I know there was going to be a huge letdown when I refused to inaccurately
1:23.2	say win South Carolina or lose South Carolina or any state the rewards delegates proportionally
1:29.8	which is to say all of them in the Democratic primate.
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